Minidoka Internment National Monument

The first flakes of snow began to fall as I reached Nazareth. The man in the woolly hat, beating his hands together as I spoke to him in the overhung lane, directed me via Nebo — the mountain from which Moses looked out over the Promised Land.  

BISHKEK, December 22 (Kabar). 4 thousand 872 hundred people from Kyrgyzstan made pilgrimage this year. Mufti of Kyrgyzstan’s Spiritual Department of Muslims Murataly azhy Zhumanov told it at a press conference at the “Kabar” News Agency ...  

  BURLEY -- Leaders in Cassia and Minidoka counties say they're ending an effort to entice the federal government to build a prison in the region. Cassia County Commissioner Clay Handy told The Times-News that commissioners voted to cancel the county's $5,000-a-month contract with consulting firm New West Strategies after the prison proposal failed to show up on any federal budget. Commissioners in Minidoka County, which was splitting the cost...  

No matter how long a person of Japanese origin lived in the United States or whether they were born here, after the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, they were rounded up and placed in internment camps. Sedona resident Linda Yee’s parents and family were among the people Read more...  

A controversial proposal to issue an apology and compensate Italian-Canadian citizens interned during the Second World War sparked a fiery exchange at the House of Commons on Thursday after a Bloc Quebecois MP compared wartime internment to the treatment of FLQ suspects in 1970.  

An Illawarra pilgrimage to Rome is expected for the canonisation of Mother Mary MacKillop, Australia's first saint. The region's Catholic churches were in celebration mode yesterday following Pope Benedict XVI's acknowledgment of two miracles.  

EL RINCON, Cuba (Reuters) -- Some dressed in sackcloth, a few crawling on their hands and knees, thousands of Cubans paid homage on Thursday to a Catholic saint who doubles as a powerful deity in the Afro-Cuban Santeria faith. The Saint Lazarus pilgrimage is one of the most important religious events.  

Today marks the 68th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Within 48 hours of that fateful morning attack on the American naval base, hundreds of influential Japanese community leaders were rounded up and arrested based on profiles gathered by Army and Navy Intelligence in conjunction with the FBI.  

'Misplaced' belief in climate change has killed more people than Hitler: Monckton Christopher Monckton, the prominent British climate change skeptic who made the news last week when he compared climate protesters in Copenhagen to "Hitler Youth," advocated the creation of internment camps for HIV-positive people in an article published two decades ago. An article that Monckton penned [...]  

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As we all know, Obama's grandmother was supposedly a Christian woman, or so he told us during the US elections. Obama also claimed he is a Christian, but for now we can probably confirm that Obama's grandmother is not a Christian, unless she went to Mecca during Hajj for other reasons, which we also doubt. On November 25, Obama's grandmother arrived in Saudi Arabia for none other than Hajj, the muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, which all Muslims are...  

Run away, run away, the internment camps are coming! That's the latest breathless pronouncement by the absurdly paranoid. How bad is this nonsense? Even the Worldnutdaily has debunked it. First, the vaguely alarming setup: President Obama announced today that he has declared a "national emergency" over the H1N1 virus, a phrase with an ominous sound, but with little explanation offered by most of the news media. The Associated Press, for...  

In 1942, thousands of Japanese Americans from across Southern California were forcibly held at an internment camp at Santa Anita Race Track, many housed in converted horse stables.  

Jeddah: Forty-eight people were killed in flash floods as the annual Haj pilgrimage began in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government reported Thursday. The civil defence authority for the holy Muslim city of Mecca said that Wednesday ...  

MATTHEW BROWN BILLINGS, Mont. a ' An effort to divert some Yellowstone National Park bison from government-sponsored slaughter is in limbo after the program's permit expired and criticism emerged over moving some of the animals onto Ted Turner's private ranch.